DD: ouch - that must have hurt. But you did a great swim . What 911 did you have? Mine was one of the last few 993s (a Targa - loved the glass roof!!) built in '96. My heart still bleeds coz I left it behind when we moved back home but since we downsized massively the fancy cars had to go

AA: Enjoy San Fran - love the place. Great running routes down by the harbour front ...

Hope weather is better where you are. Sun is out which is nice but we have a bitch of a westerly wind blowing. Just changed my planned route to one where I should have it more from the side than full frontal. 22 on the menu for today ...

Went to the cinema yesterday and watched the most inspirational movie ever. It's called GOLD and it's a documentary made by a disabled German director about 3 outstanding Paralympians. Kurt Fearnley (he needs no introduction - what a hero), Kirsten Bruhns (German swimmer who had a motorbike accident age 22 that left her in a wheelchair) and blind Kenyan long distance runner Henry Waniyoke. I hope they are going to screen it in the UK - it really is worth watching.

Morning all
Very best of luck to all racing today. Sub 90 please Minni. PB please Bro and beat MrB. Hope all goes well for everyone else racing running or recovering
Need to catch up so apologies for brief visit. LR completed 23.6 @7.55 mm av. Split the run into 3 parts. 8 miles between 8.16 and 8.30 mm.,8 miles around but not over 8mm, and last 7.6miles around 7.30mm. It was good to see how the easy start enabled me to finish strongly. That was my last LR over 20 miles. Febtastic completed too
Excited to see the race results coming in. It's like when I was a child watching the football scores on the teleprinter on a Saturday afternoon

Quick check in. Not my day today, ran 43:11 so a few seconds off my pb of 43:01. A bit disappointed as was hoping for 42:x but hey ho, will nail it next time. On a positive note my splits were consistent and I didn't fall apart, the legs just didn't want to go any faster today. MrB ran 41 so had no chance of taking him down on this occasion. At least my marriage is safe.
Good luck to everyone else racing, looking forward to the reports.

Hi All - I have to admit that last night when i saw that it was going to take me 1:30 to drive to the Spitfire 20 in good traffic, I thought sod that. So I did the inaugural Enfield 20 mile race with a feed station every 4 miles.

Had to dig deep but managed to do my target plan. 1st 10 miles @ 8:22, 2nd 10 miles 7:44, for a total time of 2:40. And even better I didn't need to drive an hour and a half back home.

Free- great race ....well on track for an impressive marathon. Join the ranks of the sub 2.30 20 milers!
Ant- very disciplined run ,looking good for Paris
Oomp- brilliant race
Bro- nearly a pb on top of lots of miles. That will do nicely. The things you have to do the show your place in the marriage
Minni-?

DD- congrats on your tri result. Looks like Brownlee out psyched you. You're going to need to work on your mental side of competition. Seriously after all the tough work you've done in the last few weeks you have no reason to feel disappointed.

Bro I think that's a really positive run for this point in training. You'll probably nail a string of PBs after the marathon. Bet Mr Bro is thrilled for you...being safely behind him.

Excellent race Freemers, so pleased for you. Impressive consistency. Have you got a cut back week planned soon? Remember to save your best efforts for VLM!

Ant P - excellent pacing. Is 7.44 your target MP? Enjoy the roast.

Oompa, sounds like you had a strong day too. That's a great speedy time, make sure you recover well.

Waiting for your report Minni, hope it was just a case of focusing on the bigger picture.

Nice long run Chick, I'm dead impressed with your mileage at the moment.

Kiwi that all sounds positive, rehab seems to be working.

1.5k swimming this morning and off to the gym shortly for some time on the elliptical etc. No treadmill though, I'm a bit limpy after a 9 mile run and about 5 miles of walking yesterday. This is all compensating for an exceptionally nice dinner last night.

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